First Minister, after 12 years in power, why have YOU not been able to leave mental patients languishing for months?
This extended BBC report at 6 and on the website had not a word of blame for Health Secretary Hancock nor for any politician at all yet in Scotland two days ago, ONLY the SNP are to be blamed and all of the opposition parties are to invited to blame them:
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton reiterated demands for increased investment and called for the Scottish Government to publish its overdue integrated workforce plan, setting out how it intends to meet the NHS’s staffing needs.
He said: “Just last week the government denied there was a mental health crisis. Today, the length of time children and young people are waiting for treatment is the worst on record. Performance has plummeted.
“The SNP government is failing a generation of young people and the consequences of their waiting up to two years for treatment are heart-breaking. Problems that start small are becoming crises as help arrives too late.”
The Scottish Greens called for an urgent review of CAHMS.
Alison Johnstone MSP said: “When young people in distress cannot access treatment when they need it, something has gone terribly wrong.
“The Scottish Government needs to review this situation urgently and ensure services are getting the support they need to meet demand, or Scotland’s young people will continue to suffer.”
Scottish Labour’s health spokesperson Monica Lennon MSP said: “These new figures reveal what we already know – on access to mental health services, the SNP are failing Scotland’s young people.
“It’s just not good enough that in 2019 thousands of young people have waited over four months to be seen by specialist mental health services, and hundreds have had to wait over a year.
“At a time when we know youth suicides have been increasing these figures should shame SNP ministers into action.”
Scottish Conservative mental health spokeswoman Annie Wells said: “This is yet another appalling failure from an SNP government that’s been distracted by issues elsewhere.
“Ensuring our young people have access to thorough and prompt mental health treatment should be a priority for this nationalist government.
“Instead, it spends all its time grandstanding and trying to break up the UK.”
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The manner in which the Unionist parties keep on and on about the NHS etc, ably supported by the MSM of course, is because they do not have any policies of their own and they use the constant noise of nit-picking criticism to disguise this.
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